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ONE Gympie girl has turned her passion for makeup into a social media hit with more than 11,400 followers and hopes one day to turn it into a full fledged business.

Courtney Long, 20, who works as a barista at Craft Punk Espresso in Mary St, is a self taught makeup artist and began her Instagram, @courts.makeup, a little more than a year ago.

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The former Kilkivan resident and James Nash High School student said she simply wanted to express her creativity but now finds herself at the wheel of a social media hit.

"I started my page in October 2016, and I was absolutely terrible back then," Long said.

"I found a passion and a love for makeup through YouTube and other social media websites, so I started to build my collection and decided I wanted to create my own little makeup page to share my thoughts and work with the rest of the world.

"I also knew a few girls I went to school with starting their own makeup pages so I thought, if they can do it, so can I."